[thoughtfunction]

It's a network effect. Readers go to databases with the most data, and creators / reviewers go to the places with the best 'audience'.

Same reason why it's been a very long and hard road to replace craigslist for many things.

[tayo42]

I think there is that, but also the yelp user experience is mostly pretty polished, there's a nice app, maps integrated, large amount of restaurant info, reservations, take out from the app, probably forgetting other things but that's a lot of work and polish to just get to the point where you can ask other people to put the effort into leaving reviews. There's no guarantee any one will

[city41]

Is craigslist unethical?

[kahnjw]

No it's just borderline unusable on anything other than a desktop and full of scams.